Ikwo | |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Ebonyi State, Cross River State |
Ethnicity: | Ikwo people |
Speakers: | 260,000 |
Date: | 2012 |
Ref: | e18 |
Script: | Latin |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Volta–Niger |
Fam6: | Igboid |
Fam7: | Nuclear Igboid |
Fam8: | Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo |
Iso3: | iqw |
Glotto: | ikwo1238 |
Glottorefname: | Ikwo |
Ikwo is an Igboid language spoken in Ebonyi state in Nigeria. It forms a dialect cluster with closely related Izii, Ezza, and Mgbo, though they are only marginally mutually intelligible.